The 13th Annual Nutcracker in Falmouth

Spring Recital 2008

On Friday, May 23rd and Saturday, May 24th of Memorial Day Weekend, the Cape Cod Dance Center presents the epic ballet Giselle to the music of Adolphe Adams at the Marstons Mills East Auditorium on Osterville/West Barnstable Road. Students and alumnae from the dance center will be joined on stage by guest dancers, Cynthia Pigeons and Guillaume Gosa, to present the ballet classic that has charmed audiences around the world for over a century.

Giselle is the crowning achievement of the romantic era of ballet, and the most poetic of all nineteenth-century full-length works. Giselle tells the tale of young women who died before their wedding day but whose love of dancing keeps them from eternal rest.

Cynthia Pigeons will delight the audience as she performs the lead as Giselle, the young peasant with a weak heart who falls in love with Albrecht, duke of Silesia. Ms. Pigeons is a soloist with Ballet Ouest of Montreal. She has danced extensively in the Montreal area with Ballet-Mobile and Ballet Ouest of Montreal and currently teaches at the Ballet Classique du Haut-Richelieu.

Guillaume Gosa, dancing the role of Albrecht, was born in France where he danced with the Avignon Opera Ballet. He recently relocated to Montreal, Canada where he met Ms. Pigeon. Mr. Gosa received his training with the Conservatoire de Danse d’Avignon and is currently auditioning to join a dance company in the United States.

Several young local actors will join the performance group in the roles of Hilarion, the gamekeeper in love with Giselle; a hunter; and Wilfried, Albrecht’s squire.

Following the performance of Giselle a short showcase of contemporary dances will be performed by students of the Cape Cod Dance Center. The performance is produced and directed by Eveline Carle. The choreography of the ballet was in parts re-choreographed by Ms. Carle and re-staged based from the original choreography by Jean Corrali and Jules Perrot.

Spring Recital 2007

Chopin’s
Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides is famous as the first "abstract" classical ballet without a narrative structure or defined characters. Les Sylphides is composed of a suite of dances in the romantic atmosphere of a moonlit park. The sylphides, (magical figures, half woman, half ghost), dance in search of the ideal. The corps de ballet is on stage almost throughout, used in decorative groups when not actually dancing. The ballet is in the repertory of nearly every company in the world offering a great challenge for the dancers at level 5 & 6 and surely a delight for our audience.
Only students from ballet 5 & 6 will participate in this ballet.

& Offenbach’s

Gaite Parisienne (Evening in Paris)

This lively ballet is set in “Tortonis”, a famous cafe in Paris during the Second Empire. In the evening members of all class of society meet for a night of entertainment. Together with the Cocodettes (high society-ladies)-ballet 4, the wait staff and cleaning ladies-ballet 5, Flower girls-ballet 3, and cancan-dancers-ballet 6, also joining in are our jugglers-ballet 1 and acrobats-ballet 2. In the festive atmosphere created by the music of Offenbach, this one act ballet is sure to charm the whole family.